Episode Report Card Omar G: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sex, Lies, And Security Video
By Omar G | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.16.2004
The Barnness of Epilogueitude. Clark is looking up at the stars. Lex comes up the stairs. Hey, that whole sex with women thing? Let's forget all about that, farmboy. The stars are out and so am I! Lex thanks Clark, and also apologizes. Clark keeps looking outside. He asks how long this is going to continue. That depends on your stamina and the strength of the headboard. Lex says he doesn't know. "What do you want me to tell you?" Lex asks. Clark says he doesn't want to hear anything; he wants Lex to change. The subtext...it's...choking me! Can't...breathe! Lex says he doesn't know if he can change. Clark calls Lex a selfish ass, basically. He says there's a whole side of Lex he doesn't know: "What else don't I know about you?" Lex, still staring outside, says that what Clark doesn't know is that Lex wakes up every day wondering why he goes on, wondering why he does the things he does. He gulps. He says that Murderous Red might have been crazy, but she was right about him: "I treated those women terribly, Clark," Lex says. "People died and I could have stopped it. I see that now." Clark says, "That's a start." It's so petulant, it's funny. Lex says that there was a moment the other night when the fire was coming toward him and he thought, "Good. Save the world a lot of grief." He says the fire went out, though, and the woman was lying on the floor. He had a second chance. "The last few days, Lex, I...I thought your father was being more honest with me than you were," Clark says, "and I hated that feeling." Extreme close-ups. Clark says he felt like he and Lex were enemies. "Don't give up on me yet," Lex says. Clark meets his gaze. It's very much the Second Gayest Look of the Episode. If you really want to make this scene work, you'll buy or download Solomon Burke's unbelievably fantastic song, "Don't Give Up on Me" and play it while you freeze-frame on those heated looks. I promise you won't be disappointed. Solomon Burke played the Austin City Limits festival this year. My brother and I watched him perform in a three-piece suit in almost-100-degree heat and he was just majestic. It was the only performance of the entire weekend (including the Pixies, Franz Ferdinand, Neko Case, and the Blind Boys of Alabama) where I got tears in my eyes hearing someone perform. Check him out, seriously.
A rainy alley behind The Talon. Jason steps outside and sees a waiting town car. He gets into the back seat. Jane Seymour, looking pretty glamorous in a froofy red coat, seems happy to see him. She says she knows he doesn't want to talk to her, but that every mother has a right to see her son. He says she's not there to see her. "Is it so terrible to want to meet your girlfriend?" she asks. He's mad about the way she went about it. He says that, this time, things are different. He says he'll come see Jane Seymour when he's ready. She asks when that will be. He tells her she can't come back to Smallville. Jane Seymour says she's glad he's happy. She calls Lana "an enchanting girl" (har har), and says she can see why Jason would go to the middle of nowhere to be with her. She calls Lana "special." Oh, jeez. She says she knew Jason would meet someone like Lana someday. Jason stares at her. "Did I meet her by accident or not?" he asks. His mom laughs and asks how else he'd meet her. Mysterious music plays. She leans over to kiss him on the cheek. "I'll wait to hear from you," she says. Jason is confused and scared. He exits the car. In the rain, he turns back and watches the town car drive off. The camera cranes up high as lightning flashes and thunder crashes. We go to black.